Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the rank & file. Unabashedly they borrowed an old idea from their bitter Russian enemy: an arti. cle in Hermann Göring's Essener National-Zeitung disclosed that political commissars were being assigned to Wehrmacht divisions to bolster German soldiers' morale, political philosophy and will to resist throughout the war's "decisive phase...
...bear no exact relation to the needs of the workers. Some who might quickly find new jobs would get more than they needed, while others would get less." He recognized that there is certain to be unemployment during reconversion, and noted: "Neither industry nor Government will be able to resist the demand for dismissal pay unless a better alternative is offered...
...tiny Manipur heard that the Japs were drawing near (see p. 29), he advised the youthful Maharaja to take a third wife; in time of crisis, he said, three could better rule the ruler's heart than two. The Maharaja complied, then issued a ringing challenge: Manipur would resist the Jap to the last man. The young men of Manipur, busy dancing and throwing crimson and purple powder on one another, paused. Wedged between India and Burma, 400 miles northeast of Calcutta, 200 northwest of Mandalay and just south of the realm of Bong Wong, the Ang of Namsang...
...history." If Term IV materializes, he predicted, it will be known in history as "the Term of Defeat and Frustration." The once great and powerful Democratic Party, he cried, has been reduced by "one-man control" to "hopeless impotency." "It no longer has the inclination or the will to resist those who would rape it. The Democratic Party is no longer democratic. One man will name its candidate for President, its candidate for Vice President, and write its platform, just as was done...
Irresistible Impulse? Psychiatric treatment sometimes "cures" homosexuality especially when it is not congenital. Psychopaths rarely improve under any treatment. A psychopath is, by definition, a person who is usually unable to resist impulses. The defense may try to prove that Patricia Lonergan led a lively life herself, that since Lonergan is a psychopath, his impulse to kill her was irresistible. In the U.S. 24 States do not allow an irresistible impulse as a defense, 18 do. Five, including New York, allow it only if the impulse "be so strong as to ob literate the notion of right or wrong." Insanity...